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The big news is that our website is now up and running again  It was been quite a struggle but here we are once again!!!  Thanks be to God!!!  Below is a lot of our old news.  We will be filling this page up with new news soon.
 

Game Night was great  We had another great gathering on Sunday, May 3rd.  There sure were a lot of good games and, of course, terrific food.  The song game was hilarious and Pastor Hout brought out some crazy magnets and some things to spin.  We look forward to more activities like this but right now it appears that the next big fellowship event will be a talent show in early June.
 

Val’s Bakery is coming  This is exciting news as they already have a yummy location in downtown Dayton.  They promise to bring lots of great European goodies to our historic city.  We enjoy these news businesses like Redbird Pizza, which is next door to us.
 

Our annual Whirled Top Festival  It was a great weekend with lots of spinning action at 213 E. Central Avenue.  People came from all over.  Over ten states were represented and we even had someone from Uruguay.  There were activities all day long on Saturday the 24th with the national championship competition in the middle of the afternoon.  Some were so into it that they came for Thursday and Friday activities.  It was so nice to have a bunch of people stay for worship service on Sunday.  Pastor Hout has never had so many people in the Top Hall of Fame (his garage) for so many days in a row.  .
 

Dog Days and the first NFL extra point kick  Sunday August the 11th was a great day for us.  We had a very nice dog days meal and lots of fun together playing board games.  In the morning we highlighted our good and faithful member George “Hobby” Kinderdine.  He sat in the last pew on the pulpit side and played for our very own Dayton Triangles.  Amazingly, he was the first guy to kick and extra point in the NFL.  His jerseys were even with us for the worship services on the 11th.  This is truly a great story of St. Jacob and our community.
 

VBS and Ice Cream Social were great  We had another fantastic week of summer adventures.  We gathered July 15-19 from 6-8:45 at St. Jacob under the theme “Created To Be.”  There were Bible studies, crafts, games and yummy snacks.  Many thanks to all the teachers, the staff and especially our camapers.  We ended our week with a terrific ice cream social on Sunday night with lots of games, activities and, of course, ice cream!!!
 

World Juggling Day  Our front lawn was packed on June 15th.  Jugglers came from far and wide to join us for this great annual event to highlight our sport.  Lots of beginning jugglers and new jugglers also attended which made for a great group of participants.  One young man never gets to juggle with others and could not stop smiling the whole day!!!  Nearly 30 people were here and they filled the front yard of the church with lots of activity.  Cars slowed to take a look.  Tour groups stopped to watch.  Trucks honked their horns at us.  It was a day to remind everyone St. Jacob is here and we are doing what we can to serve the community.
 

The season of Easter  A lot has happened as we enjoyed a good Easter season and also Mother’s Day.  We love to celebrate the new life we have during the season of Easter as we had a  great Holy Humor Sunday, a terrific Good Shepherd Sunday and a fantastic branches/vine Sunday.  The Sundays after Easter are always a time for extra resurrection smiles and we sure have had them.  We also had lots of smiles on Easter Sunday and are ready to keep celebrating the resurrection of Jesus for a whole season and for the rest of our lives!!!  Our Lenten season was a busy time with midweek services and soup suppers.  Then we had a busy Holy Week with Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services.  Easter Sunday was great with lots of people and lots of activity like a breakfast, an egg hunt, two worship services and lots of instruments with lots of music.  What a wondereful day it was!!!
 

Lenten Fair was so fun and informative!!!  We had a hall full of people and full of crafts and food which highlight this amazing season of Lent.  It was a great night of hands on learning with so many unique ways to consider Lenten symbols.  How great to see so many families and children from our congregation.  And how great to see so many visitors from our areas for this fine event.  It was a lot of work to set up and take down, but all the effort was worth it to see the excited eyes of everyone.  Meanwhile, we are heading toward the end of the Lenten season and Holy Week!!!
 

Souper Bowl Sunday was super  The Super Bowl game was good but Souper Bowl Sunday was even better as we did all we could to remember the hungry on that day.  It was good to have so many people join us for that day and help out by bringing in some food for the food pantry or donating some cash for others hungry in our area or writing a check for the ELCA World Hunger Appeal.
 

Our annual congregational meeting went well  We were happy to see the large number of people who came out in the bitter cold to get things rolling for 2024.  Big big big thanks to all of them as they helped us get the new budget passed.  We are now ready to continue on in the great ministry we have here in Miamisburg and beyond.  One of our first big activities will be Souper Bowl Sunday as we do what we can to remember the hungry.
 

Christmas Eve worship services went well  We had worship services at 7:30 and 11:00 and nice crowds for each of these gatherings.  Many thanks to the many who helped with these special moments together to worship our newborn Christ child.  The candles and Silent Night were a special moment for everyone.  Now we are are out of the season of Christmas and moving toward the light of Epiphany!!!
 

Sunday School Christmas Program  We had one amazing night on the 17th of December.  Not only was the program a hit, but we also had great attendance.  Many many thanks to all who came to support our little ones.  The carry-in dinner before the event was quite amazing too.  So much good food!!!  Icing on the cake was the fact that we had a live baby Jesus.  Good work, little Beckham.  A little bit of trivia is the fact that the mother of baby Jesus was also baby Jesus (back in the day)!!! 
 

Holiday Fest with bazaar and parade at SJ  Wow, were there a lot of people on Main Street for the parade and sales from local businesses.  Sadly, not as many made it over to our bazaar at 213 E. Central Avenue.  We still had a great sale and it is still going on.  The outside sign says “50% off if you come to our church.”  Many thanks to all who worked on the bazaar and thanks also to all who were a part of the parade unit.  It was a good looking group.  Now we are getting ready for our annual Sunday School Christmas program.
 

Busy Thanksgiving time around St. Jacob  We had a good crowd at our annual  Thanksgiving community worship service on the 19th.  We also had a big crowd at our  annual Thanksgiving Day meal.  It was rough trying to keep a good count on the day but it looks like we served nearly 400 meals!!!
 

Reformation Sunday and All Saints Sunday  Uncle Marty would have been proud of our Reformation Sunday activities.  We had great music.  We had great scripture readings.  We had great quotes and stories in the sermon.  What a great day for good memories of our history.  We continued the next week by sharing more memories.  How great it was to be here at St. Jacob for All Saints Sunday and to remember so many of the faithful who have gone before us, the faithful who are with us now and the faithful who are yet to be.
 

Annual Congregational meeting  We recently had our annual congregational meeting.  It is usually the second Sunday in October unless we are snowed out.  No snow this year so everything was a go and we had a good meeting.  Many thanks to all who came and supported our preparations for 2024.
 

Rally Day  We did all we could to rally behind our Sunday School in early September.  We had lots of balloons, prizes, puppets, songs, ukeleles, unusual riding things and so much more.  It was a great day.  After all the morning activites, our Rally Day Band played at the 10:30 worship service.  We had a terrific time!!!
 

A full page picture in the Dayton Daily News!!!  We have been so fortunate with our parade unit.  It has given us lots of good exercise and good publicity.  Yet, nothing matches what happened on the first Friday in September.  We opened the paper to the GO section and there, on the front page, was a full giant picture of our unit!  It took up the entire page and they were using it to promote the Holiday at Home Parade.  By the way, the parade went well for us as we had a good unit and wonderful weather.
 

Read about our pipe organ Here is an interesting bit about our pipe organ:
http://organsociety.bsc.edu/SingleOrganDetails.php?OrganID=31371